Well, I'm ready, gang, welcome back, get again to the active self-protection podcast. I'm, as always, your host, Mike Wuliver, and I remain your favorite former Fed with me today. A new friend of mine, he was a master electrician, not just a regular electrician, ladies and gentlemen, a master electrician. He is from Janesville, Wisconsin. He is currently engaged. Mike, how are you, sir? I'm doing pretty good, Mike. Well, you and I got on the line here. We're having all sorts of technical issues, so hopefully this goes over well. If not, then no one will ever hear this, and we'll have to start over from scratch. But that's happened more than once. If you watch the podcast for any length of time, you know that I'm not good at my

job. So this happens frequently where I have to start over from scratch. Hopefully that won't

happen this week. So Mike, you are a master electrician. It's one of those, it's one of those

jobs like Mike Roel likes to say that'll always be needed. Like I don't see AI replacing electrician

anytime soon. It's, it's an important thing like

Plummer and Carpenter and a lot of other, you know, masonry work, stuff that's going to need to be

done forever and ever. What exactly does it mean to be a master electrician versus just a regular

like journeyman electrician or whatever? So like a lot of times when you have like wire sizing or you've got more calculations,

like load calculations.

So a lot of times a master electrician will look at kind of like the overview of a job and

kind of be more involved in the design of a job

for say like bidding a job or just you know proposing one needs to be done then the jury may kind

goes out and executes that and a master electrician does too so I'm still in the field but a lot

of times a lot of masters want to beat more in the office and get more in that setting. Very good. No, I know. Okay. So master electrician could be, he could be out on a job. He or she, I shouldn't say he, he or she could be out on a job site or in the office. But the idea is your, let's say someone comes to you and goes, we're going to build a warehouse and we need to, obviously, we need electricity. You're the guy that goes, okay, so we need to make sure that this amount of power is coming from, what do you call it, the mains, the lines, the street. What do you call it? Yeah, the utility service. Yeah, your service load. Yeah. And overseas all, it's very interesting. That sounds like an interesting job, actually. So as it turns out, we're not going to do the story just yet, but your story actually involves you coming home from work, as, if I recall correctly, we'll get into that just a moment. But you mentioned you do watch active self-protection for time to time.

Are you a self-defense-oriented person?

Is that something that you take seriously, that you've given some thought?

Are you a concealed carrier, O.C. carrier, anything like that?

Yeah, I do have my CCW card in Wisconsin.

I do watch the channel a lot.

I've been watching it for years.

So when you, when you emailed me back, when I emailed you guys, I was just stoked to hear back from you guys.

But yeah, I haven't got my CCW.

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